This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems … influence of networks and local institutions. Significantly, they also introduce several new approaches to regional innovation … cooperation, networks and institutions, and their role in the development of local systems of innovation. The combination of …

We analyze the endogenous formation of R&D networks, where firms are active in different product markets and can … both, the network of R&D collaborations as well as the market structure, are endogenously determined. We show that the … coevolution of market and network structure matter for the relationship between competition and innovation. Moreover, our model …